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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Triple conjunction Mars






2. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






3. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






4. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






5. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






6. Transit of Venus on June 11.






7. Mercury occults Neptune.






8. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






9. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






10. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






11. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






12. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






13. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






14. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






15. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






16. December 10






17. December 10






18. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






19. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






20. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






21. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






22. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






23. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






24. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






25. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






26. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






27. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






28. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






29. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






30. Transit of Mercury.






31. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






32. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






33. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






34. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






35. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






36. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






37. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






38. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






39. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






40. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






41. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






42. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






43. Transit of Venus.






44. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






45. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






46. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






47. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






48. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






49. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






50. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.